//------------------------------// // Two Years // Story: Empress of Flame 2: Flickering Flame // by Pathious //------------------------------// It had been two years since Sunset Shimmer and the Empress of Flame had allegedly sacrificed themselves the rest of Equeastria. A new stain glass window was now in the hall of which all stain glass windows were. Sunsets was right beside the window that represented Princess twilights Coronation. Princess twilight found herself looking at Sunset window allot as of recently. She still couldn't get over the pain she felt she had caused to that pony. Much like today, Twilight found herself there. "Princess Twilight?" Celestia said as she walked up to the Pale, light grayish mulberry colored Alicorn. "Your needed in the meeting room of Canterlot castle today." Celestia said as she wrapped a wing around the smaller Alicorn. "You have been out here all day Twilight." "I'm sorry Celestia.." Twilight slowly shifted her gaze to her teacher. "I don't know why but for some reason I'm finding myself more and more drawn to this window pane." Twilight shook her head as the past memories began to flood the inner working of her mind. Twilight always thought about the day Sunset did what she did. It was hard for her to forget. Sunset loved her and she broke her. "Twilight we think we may know why your feeling this way....The light in the sky has returned~!" Celestias' tone of voice changed from calm to rather ecstatic. Twilights Eyes widened at the mention of the light. When those words slipped of Celestias tongue, Twilight could hardly believe it. Twilight was shaking in her own skin. She could hardly believe it. "B-but how is that possible. T-the light was created by the portal erupting?" Twilight couldn't wrap her mind around the thought of such a force returning. "Twilight that the thing... T-the light..." Celestia paused momentarily as if she was scared of something. "The light looks like the cutie mark of Sunset shimmer~!" Celestia had excitement in her voice. At the same time however she also had the hint of fear in her voice. "We have to postpone the meeting. There are much more important matters to discuss now~!" Twilight said as her wings spread. Twilight then took off running down the hall. She had to get outside to see this light for herself. Celestia reached out for Twilight as she ran off. Celestia had said something as well, but Twilight was way to far away now to be able to hear the words that Celestia had spoke. Twilight reached the large exit of the castle in no time at all. She pushed the large gateway like doors open. Her eyes immediately appeared to glow from the light that now reflected off of them. This light was bright enough that the night could not exist as long as it remained in the sky. Sunsets cutie mark plastered a portion of the sky. The light represented her cutie mark. Such a phenomenon like this did not come without some panic here and there. There were several ponies now rushing up to twilight with questions such as. What's going on? What is that? Is empress returning? "Everypony, please calm down. As of right now everything is under control." Twilight said to keep the public around her at ease. Though her answer to they're question only led to the ponies asking further more questions. "Princess Twilight~!" A pony yelled out as he was holding a camera. "Please tell us how exactly everything is under control!" The pony was quickly pushed aside as yet another pony barged in to ask her a question. "Everypony as of right now I can not answer your question...Maybe once the situation develops more... I can...ummm.. answer these." Twilight quickly took flight back to the Castle door. Twilight did not expect such a paparazzi so quickly. Twilight got the front door closed as quick as possible. She turned around to go find Celestia only to be met by the face of the Lullay moon princess Luna. "Princess Twilight. I see you got the news..?" Luna said in her usual tone of voice. Luna did not seem as shocked or surprised about this whole situation. At least not as shocked as Celestia appeared to be. "Yes..Luna I have been informed..What do you think is happening.?" Twilight said as this whole problem and it's possibilities started to get to her. "I'm afraid I already know what is coming after this." Lunas ears pinned back. "I caused this to happen." Lunas eyes shifted to look at the ground. "How? How did you cause this?" Twilight was more confused than ever. "Not long ago as I was shifting around in the dream world I stumbled across a dream that appeared to be coming from the mind of Sunset shimmer." Luna sighed. "I ventured into this dream when I shouldn't have. Sunset shimmer had been stuck in a sleep for two years according to the data I managed to collect. The dream never changed. When I entered it Sunset found me." Luna looked back into Twilights vibrant eyes. "She finally found out she was stuck in a dream. I WOKE HER UP~!" Lunas eyes started to fill with tears. "That doesn't tell me what's going to happen Luna. WHAT WAS SHE DREAMING~!" Twilight showed a tint of anger in her voice. Twilight was growing more and more concerned. She both wanted and didn't want Luna to answer that question. The possible answers scared her. "Princess twilight... She was dreaming about the day she found out that you were with flash sentry. She was seeing that over and over again. That was what caused her to turn into empress. Don't you remember. Don't you see what's going to happen. The Empress of Flame is coming back. She is coming back and there is....nothing... we can do." Lunas word hit twilight like a speeding train. All this stuff was already so dramatic. Could it really get any worse?